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204 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. | Marcu 27. 
pe weeds before sowing, not IV probable that it arose from * sap circulatine iS i 
penam ea eri by envelopi ing them in 1. "solve samples = at Goar af 3 in the dis- the plant at the time when nag — through in 
e * 2 . 
artificial husk of powerful manuring ma tter, 3 2 n samples of Caucasian Silk, in hanks (of Arabian, one case more soda did in the other, Teenie 
sustain the plant ater the 1 meni employed to gi inese, Italian, and Thibetian varieties); from the contents of the fluid of the sap would, of course. 
increased activity to the germination of the seed had a a tof Mr. = panime P AEN cabled, ay te Ag ae which had been actually assi 
taken effect. 2. Martin stated that this method was j rench, Muscovian, and Thibetian Silk-worms. y the plant, and hence, from the variation in its com. 
position, must tend to modify the amount of the alka. 
e 2 
t 2 
totally different in principle from that of M. Bickes, or 
ontinental inventors, by one of which 
Fren to at the last “Council b y 
Mr. Majendie had been steeped; and ei his 
icati th marks 
single instance, where the seed was en by 
Van Oost, or since his death by ae ie 1 * ** receipt 
potash ; produce paa ne and Mig | equal, and i 
some instances . at grow e lan pied 
highly-farmed. In ects led g yes need, T have not been so 
adjoin, ne ee had Sa 
and on others the s never e up, or 
f ingly. all cases, yon party * thelr own * À 
for the last five years for the Rev. 
ur. e 1 3 as also for faves or four 
ne wnham, 3 
improvement upon the old syste cting prey rŠ ait 
1 I placed Mr. Van N 88 in January last, 
the hands of k Don pi aurea sor of Chemistry at the 
correct. He always called it manuring 
in which iat seen is prepared, this meaning i is bic borne out.” 
‘ATOES. — D BARK 
stated, that t the * ee ved i * 
from the Consul of = —— burg- Schwert a 3 of 
Potatoes which eee the me been 
` affected he el a request ‘hat 
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onel 5 
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— Mr. Wils — ma Paris 
lowing form y along with en le of the sound Potatoes 
‘ig at fh prod 3 
h June, 1851, 
at th rend of e taken 
September, red 34 aes of which 1 gallon wer 
faulty with jess, 7 — the remainder we 4 7 e qu nite 
several o! m had since 7 5 off di 
Colonel Spaas remarked, th. 
i 
93 
P — 
Parkins ma re autumn . and he had found n 
a ay 
Vi ee URAL a mp 
A one-horse PI 
T.wo one-horse Culurators; with one convertible Share 
2. a 4 f handles, and three delving tools (spades or 
vels). 
2 
Teo 88 of the Chev. de Masslow’s “ Historical Review 
of the 1 of the Imperial Agricultural Society 
of Mose 
Colonel Challoner remarked that the 8 5 
e 
e ast, t 
: 1 it broken and short 
pei b 
Mr. 
of 
— land i is bope for a fallo w of 1 
P and used in G 
was 
lecklenburg 8 being each cut into halves, 
anted in two rows, in a kitchen | . 
| Pies and ev 
presente e 
requi — . 'he shoul da have “thought the great 
ir 
of Man 
stance, according to the nature of the m 
which the soil had been i Haren be Chemical 43 
Miscellaneous. 
A New Mode of re e nt 3 
to ney by which manu e lab 
In renee 
2 
Hi 
the heap, a 
n that is pe ree: plough again on the 
and raise another i 
principle în in . 1 45 
cult ivast 
af ws horse from oe body of the pou would render 
nage ghman who held the 
N ales wit 
over the horses. 
Saye 
iffie 8 expen enced last year 
who were able to keep the neat 
wor 
e American and 
oughs in 
E 
® 
that of the Scotch o 
Vice-President of the Industrial Society of Vietoria, had 
form , paid a visit 
to jenai ia, an became acquainted with its agriculture. 
One of the Riini ploughs then presented to to the Coun 
cil was, he believed, 5 
oman plough, introduced b by d n 
. e. It was calculated to ans a shallow 
furr 
rly, 
a TA i 
—a m 
who used this plough to be best adapted 
e soil, especially where 
those 
o the aération o 
and Poland, as a run 
a — sheep during the summer. The other plough 
used for deeper eultiva- 
scari 
ows. Efbe shaft frame was er with 5 
placed below it. ments of Russia were sim- 
n rude ; but as “the object ai 
red to be 
only to“ 3 the ground, as we should peat the 
Lees they were perhaps sufficient for the purpose 
required. Mr. Fisher Hobbs 1 
nder er — was pro 
Hobbs referred to 
tries. 
In refere: — cited the 
ur = winter frosts, * about: 255 per 
ent bah eg ancient | five 
the Grass- the 
2 months, from autumn 
i Ided 2 to 23 quarters 
wee | 0 yie 34 
Mr. F 
of oe “hints the potent nure is by f 
of | 1 — may derive from communications received from e N N 
coun 
ultivate „ during winter, very muc 
than by e 1 have — hope o of petting 15 l 
n depth, moved and thrown up in ridges, and exposed 
acre, or 
In the spring the s would mere ly require pulling 
s robi and levelling 115 the scarifier. Mr. Mechi’s Sccond 
Pap 
How should the Cottage Farmer sow his Wheat?—The 
ld sow 
f 
middle of October, will be su 
cae of grains after that ate should be about 
din 
according as the seas 
3 any y objection to dibblin ng corn besides that which 
m the supposed trouble of doing so 
ed corn, 
hon 
osed tr 
t to 
y productive soil. Rus Groom- 
bridge’s Elementary pes sition 
P this * ends upon the con 
on O 5 exhau ated soils it is a ready 
my land being net 
Wan am 
for guano ; but now 
cimen of the Tchornoi Zem, or Black Eart 
Russie, from the property of M. tou Wisin, ot 
specimens, Wheat, Rye, Barley, 
: Oats). 
= Triticum, , amyleum, durum, vulgare; from Moscow and | 
2. Secale, cereale from. Orenburg, Saratoff, and Wla- 
3 Hordeum, vulgare; from Orenburg. 
ee sativa; from Wladimir. 
5 . harvest of 1850; from the Oural Steppes, 
at: —— of 1850; from the Samara Steppes. 
ayes of 1851: the Kolous,“ from Bess- 
it 8 of 1851; the “ Bieloturka,” from Novo- 
harvest of 1851; the “Gourka,” from Novo- 
st of 1851 ; from Nijni-Novogorod. 
ha vest of 1851; from Model Farm, near 
s 1851; Tes statement 
Nijni-Novogorod. 
farm of Charkoff. 
farm, near 
y apot. 
Colonel . seconded ase Mr. j : 
On 
Fisher rete tee best thanks e Council were 
unanimously voted to the RA r ‘i the 
favour they had eo he upon the Society by present- 
f | ing to it these m g presen 
It may be added, that in a third volume of the 
For b AI ye 3 will be found 
hison’s Jarabe the 
— 6 and chemical natare of the black 
regions 
of Russ | 
The Council then adjourned to their Weekly Meeting, 
on Wednesday, March 2 
CHEMICAL, or Lonpon, Feb. 16.—The President in 
the Chair. be following paper was read. 
Varia rtion of P 
n Plots o 
periments, er re by him at th 
di thé view of Gland 
one 
when the Barley had gro 
dressed with a strong solution either of ear 
soda or of chloride of sod the ashes of- the plant 
contained 8 per cent. more soda than was pre- 
sent when the plant had 
with carbonate — 
| consumers, it 
times of “slow coach 
estion could not have been entertam 
mos 
Indeed, the ee for 
of ue at least 
onfirm my statem Now, as it tab ateher’ 
one — of Turnips to — a Lie. of meat ( 
5 follows that nearly 
m the b 
carriage— there 
animal ne 8 
t our railway companies will rer 
sod encourage traffic OS 
absolute cost of 
realise an interest on 
